It’s been almost a year since I argued in this blog that we should “Keep Camden Directly Democratic.”…

Should the town of Camden continue to own the Apollo Tannery property along the Megunticook River on Washington Street and keep it for a farmers’ market and park? Or should that property be sold…

Camden voters are not in a position to make an informed decision on the future of the Montgomery Dam. We need as a…

Direct democracy is not efficient. Anyone who has tried to get things done with open public participation -- even at small-town level -- knows that. Turning the responsibility over to legislators…

A buyout of Central Maine Power (CMP) and its fellow power distributor Versant by a consumer-owned utility is about to come back up before the Maine legislature, thanks to the persistence of Rep.…

The town of Camden has for more than a decade been debating how best to use the property it owns at the old Apollo Tannery site on Washington Street, running alongside the Megunticook River and…

What now must we do?

Now that Wall Street and even parts of the international oil industry have engaged in the fight against climate change, seeing the climate crisis as a threat to their…

Have those of you who are getting on in years, as I am,  thought lately about how much we elders owe to the younger people who have sacrificed so much to save us from the dreaded virus? And about…